Courtney Love
Also Known As: 考特妮·洛夫
Biography: Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, her career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love has drawn public attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontational lyrics, as well as her highly publicized personal life following her marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. In 2020, NME named her one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years. Born to countercultural parents in San Francisco, Love had an itinerant childhood, but was primarily raised in Portland, Oregon, where she played in a series of short-lived bands and was active in the local punk scene. After briefly being in a juvenile hall, she spent a year living in Dublin and Liverpool before returning to the United States and pursuing an acting career. She appeared in supporting roles in the Alex Cox films Sid and Nancy (1986) and Straight to Hell (1987) before forming the band Hole in Los Angeles with guitarist Eric Erlandson. The group received critical acclaim from underground rock press for their 1991 debut album, produced by Kim Gordon, while their second release, Live Through This (1994), was met with critical accolades and multi-platinum sales. In 1995, Love returned to acting, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure in Miloš Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), which established her as a mainstream actress. The following year, Hole's third album, Celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for three Grammy Awards. Love continued to work as an actress into the early 2000s, appearing in big-budget pictures such as Man on the Moon (1999) and Trapped (2002), before releasing her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, in 2004. The subsequent several years were marred with publicity surrounding Love's legal troubles and drug relapse, which resulted in a mandatory lockdown rehabilitation sentence in 2005 while she was writing a second solo album. That project became Nobody's Daughter, released in 2010 as a Hole album but without the former Hole lineup. Between 2014 and 2015, Love released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series Sons of Anarchy and Empire. In 2020, she confirmed she was writing new music. Love has also been active as a writer; she co-created and co-wrote three volumes of a manga, Princess Ai, between 2004 and 2006, and wrote a memoir, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney Love, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday: July 09, 1964
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Gender: Female
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Basquiat
Overview: The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-09
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
Overview: Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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Beat
Overview: The true story of two murders that shaped the lives of several college students who went on to become some of the most influential writers of the "Beat Generation."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-29
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Man on the Moon
Overview: The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Trapped
Overview: When their daughter is abducted by experienced kidnappers, the Jennings turn the tables on their seemingly fool-proof plan.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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Feeling Minnesota
Overview: Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red, a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jjaks, Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Straight to Hell
Overview: A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
Genres: Action Western Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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Kurt & Courtney
Overview: After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people. Portraits emerge: a shy, slight Kurt, weary of touring, embarrassed by fame, hooked on heroin; an out-going Courtney, dramatic, controlling, moving from groupie to star.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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Sid and Nancy
Overview: January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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200 Cigarettes
Overview: In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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The Righteous Babes
Overview: The Righteous Babes shows how the self-affirmative music of young women is renewing the 90's feminism. In the film, audience can experience feminism not in the library but in the rock concert hall. The film shows interviews and performances. In addition, controversial feminists along with American and British women journalists share their views on pop culture.
Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-22
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Not Bad for a Girl
Overview: A documentary on women musicians of the 1990s from the indie rock music genre, grunge and riot grrrl including Hole, Babes in Toyland, L7 and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-06
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
Overview: Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this documentary tells the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Hit So Hard
Overview: The rise to fame (and the near-fatal fall from it) of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band, Hole. Given a Hi-8 video camera just before Hole's infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty captured stunningly intimate footage of the scene that has never been seen... until now. Not just an all-access backstage pass to the music that shaped a generation, Hit So Hard is a harrowing tale of overnight success, the cost of addiction, and ultimately, recovery and redemption.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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Club Vatican
Overview: Kuchar’s childhood was heavily shaped by Catholic sexual repression and guilt. Movies acted as an escape from day-to-day life, a parallel reality that reveled in sin and sensation. Teaching at the libertine San Francisco Art Institute from 1971–2011, Kuchar made numerous hot-blooded, Z-grade “classroom pictures” with his students. Several, including Club Vatican, Motel Capri and Evangelust, act as lascivious collective exorcisms of religious hypocrisy and sexual repression. Club Vatican is one of the most visually sumptuous of Kuchar’s classroom pictures, and was recently restored by the Harvard Film Archive (alongside other of Kuchar’s pedagogical free-for-alls). The frame is packed with visual stimulation and the film unfolds as a series of writhing tableaux depicting clergy and sinners alike in perverse Catholic rites. Kuchar called it “a meditation on religious upheaval via mental strife.” Starring Courtney Love!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Julie Johnson
Overview: A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Julie discovers her abilities and finds the courage to make dramatic life changes. This is a story of realizing one's potential and being willing to turn one's life upside down to take a chance on finding happiness. Claire, Julie's best friend, goes along with Julie's secret quest and eventually moves in with her. Both women are on a search to realize their dreams and come to terms with their love for each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
Overview: In 1971, the Kalvøya adventure started with shows, jazz and folk rock and the festival developed into "The mother of all Norwegian festivals".
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2021-12-13
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Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part
Overview: Movies, music and Madonna: behind the scenes with Arianne Phillips, the award-winning costume designer and stylist. See how a shy misfit rebel became such a powerful creative force in both the fashion and movie industries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-07
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Inside the Golden Statue
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Awards ceremony.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Cobain: Montage of Heck
Overview: Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art, music, never seen before movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-23
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Hole - Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
Overview: Hole's performance at The Metro on October 21, 1994. The show was taped and then broadcast on "ABC In Concert" in 1995.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-13
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The Young Blood Chronicles
Overview: The members of Fall Out Boy undergo kidnappings, torture, and murder at the hands of Courtney Love, the leader of a cult with one aim: to silence the music.
Genres: Music Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-24
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1991: The Year Punk Broke
Overview: David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances by Dinosaur Jr, Babes in Toyland, The Ramones and Gumball.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-19
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Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson
Overview: Pamela Anderson was roasted by Courtney Love, Adam Carolla, Bea Arthur, Nick DiPaolo, Greg Giraldo, Elon Gold, Eddie Griffin, Lady Bunny, Lisa Lampanelli, Tommy Lee, Jeff Ross, Sarah Silverman, Andy Dick, roastmaster Jimmy Kimmel and pre-taped appearances by David Spade and Hugh Hefner. Dennis Rodman was amongst the crowd on the stage. This roast featured a large amount of jokes and satire regarding sex directed from roasters toward fellow roasters, complete with Andy Dick appearing as Pamela's plastic surgeon and groping her breasts as part of his skit. Many of the jokes were also directed at Courtney Love for appearing to be inebriated (but claiming to have been sober for a year), Bea Arthur's masculinity, Andy Dick's ambiguous sexuality and Lisa Lampanelli's full figured body as well as her attraction towards black people. One of the audience members was Anna Nicole Smith.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-14
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No Alternative Girls
Overview: No Alternative Girls is a 1994 short film by Tamra Davis.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-22
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Bob and the Monster
Overview: Six years in the making, this documentary film follows outspoken indie-rock hero Bob Forrest, through his life-threatening struggle with addiction, to his transformation into one of the most influential and controversial drug counselors in the US today. BOB AND THE MONSTER crafts contemporary footage, animation and compelling interviews with archival performances and personal videos from Bob's past to reveal the complex layers of this troubled, but hopeful soul. Testimony from his peers, including Courtney Love, Anthony Kiedis and Flea add texture, but it's the depth of Bob's music, interwoven throughout the film, that illuminates this unforgettable and inspirational story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-24
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The Return of Courtney Love
Overview: This VH1 Rock Doc traces the highs and lows of Courtney Love's career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-26
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Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
Overview: This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and females playing male characters and vice-versa.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-15
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The Long Home
Overview: A young contractor is hired to build a honky-tonk in Tennessee by the man who killed his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Franca: Chaos and Creation
Overview: Director Francesco Carrozzini creates an intimate portrait of his mother, Franca Sozzani, the legendary editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue. From the ridiculous to the sublime, her astonishing but often controversial magazine covers have not only broken the rules but also set the high bar for fashion, art and commerce over the past 25 years. From the legendary “Black Issue" and the “Plastic Surgery issue" Sozzani remains deeply committed to exploring subject matter off limits to most in order to shake up the status quo and occasionally redefine the concept of beauty.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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Tapeheads
Overview: The story of Ivan and Josh, two dimwitted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the ins and outs of the business in LA, and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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Menendez: Blood Brothers
Overview: Lyle and Eric Menendez were nice, educated boys from Beverly Hills, which makes the murder of their parents even more inexplicable. Never-before-seen details emerge in this investigation into their lives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-11
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Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Overview: A look at the history of fame in the world through the eyes of pop star impresario, Rodney Bingenheimer
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-17
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Sunset Strip
Overview: A documentary on the famous Los Angeles street.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-16
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The Dark Night of the Soul
Overview: A short animation clip where the star Courtney Love is trying to become dignified and elegant. Her friend tells her she must lose her kook. She has troubled sleep and she chants for help. The next morning she wakes up with a Birkin bag and her prayers are answered. The short features music from Hole's album Nobody's Daughter.
Genres: Music Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Overview: Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.
Genres: Documentary Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-05
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Author: The JT LeRoy Story
Overview: New York magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked “it boy” wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about his sordid childhood had captivated icons and luminaries internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn’t actually exist. He was dreamed up by 40-year-old San Francisco punk rocker and phone sex operator, Laura Albert.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-22
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J.T. LeRoy
Overview: A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-26
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Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope
Overview: Steven Cantor's award-winning documentary chronicles of the lives of bouncers - the burly boys who guard both sides of the door in nightclubs across America. The film takes an inside look at the mindset of these frequently ridiculed, but always feared enforcers of the night and examines whether they are skilled experts in security, hired to anticipate trouble, or just hired thugs meant to intimidate. Revealed within is a world of notorious nightclub bouncers, including New York's Terence "The Black Prince" Buckley and British legend Lenny "The Guv'nor" McLean who appeared in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" Written by Sujit R. Varma
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
Overview: A star-studded musical celebration in tribute to Leonard Cohen—the Montreal-born writer, composer, performer and man of letters—that took place in November 2017 at the Bell Centre.
Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-03
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(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Overview: While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion piece to include. The film was also shown to a handful of lucky audiences before the DVD's eventual release in 2011. It's an awesome bonus with tons of great footage that could have easily been in the film. These songs were probably the best to leave out of the full-length film, since 2 were brand new and still quite shaky. The only tour staple not accounted for in either film is "Mary-Christ". Here are the sources I could determine: Inhuman - ?? White Kross - 08/27/91 Bremen Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit - 08/24/91 Koln In Bloom (Nirvana) - 09/01/91 Rotterdam Eric's Trip - 09/01/91 Rotterdam (but spoken intro is from 08/25/91?) Tunic snippet - 08/27/91 Bremen Chapel Hill - 08/27/91 Bremen
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-12
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A Midsummer's Nightmare
Overview: Four young lovers head into the woods to pursue their romantic desires, however, their plans are soon jeopardized when terrifying forces attack, using their own fantasies and secrets against them.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-31
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L7: Pretend We're Dead
Overview: A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Hole: MTV Unplugged
Overview: On February 14, 1995, Hole recorded a live acoustic performance in front of an audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Along with a string ensemble, The group played a mix of hits off "Live Through This," plus new material, covers by Duran Duran and Donovan, and unreleased Nirvana track "You Know You're Right."
Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-18
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Welcome to My Castle!
Overview: Over 5 hours of full-length interviews with Nirvana, Tommy Chong, Sonic Youth, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Ron Jeremy, and many more. Includes videos of Nardwuar's band, The Evaporators, along with all sorts of bonus material!
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-04
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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Overview: Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-14
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Last Party 2000
Overview: Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than in the orchestrated conventions. Hoffman shows an obvious distaste for money politics and the conservative right. He looks seedier and more disillusioned the campaign progresses. Eventually Hoffman seems most energized by the Ralph Nader campaign as an alternative to the nearly indistinguishable major parties. The high point of the film are the comments by Barney Frank who says that marches and demonstrations are largely a waste of time, and that the really effective political players such as the NRA and the AARP never bother with walk ins, sit-ins, shoot-ins or shuffles. In the interview with Jesse Jackson, Hoffman is too flustered to ask all of his questions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-02
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James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Overview: Filmed on the road during his 2022 Greatest Hit Tour, director Chris Atkins followed James Blunt across Europe and delves into James Blunt's unique backstory. From witnessing the Kosovo War, recording the biggest selling album of the '00s, enduring the backlash that followed his success, and then tweeting his way back to becoming a national treasure, this is an intimate portrait of James Blunt as never seen before – a brutally honest story of a painfully self-aware, endlessly touring musician, for whom persistence eventually prevails.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-06
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Hole - Live Through This
Overview: In this live performance, Hole showcases many of their songs from Live Through this. Live Through This is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released on April 12, 1994, by DGC Records. Recorded in late 1993, it departed from the band's unpolished hardcore aesthetics to more refined melodies and song structure.[3] Frontwoman Courtney Love said that she wanted the record to be "shocking to the people who think that we don't have a soft edge", but maintain a harsh sensibility.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-11
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